We’ve got an absolutely packed emailbag this week — and a packed DMbag and packed commentbag — so let’s get right to it…
First up, an email from a reader about a certain FinDom with an ethical dilemma…
A couple of additional points. Your ethicists created a bit of semantic confusion with their consistent use of the word competence. In the US system, competence is a legal determination. Whether someone has decision making capacity is something that can be considered by the lay person and determined by many different types of licensed clinical professionals (physicians, psychologists, etc.). Those same professionals cannot, though, determine competence. In addition, should the family or anyone else become aware of this scenario and think there is a question of financial exploitation, they are free to make a report of concern to the appropriate state agency responsible for investigating elder abuse, neglect, and financial exploitation.
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